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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Bentley no longer using &amp;quot;Trust&amp;quot; Licensing? - outrageous overage charges now!</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/communities/other_communities/licensing_cloud_and_web_services/f/forum/117877/bentley-no-longer-using-trust-licensing---outrageous-overage-charges-now</link><description>We received an invoice today from Bentley for over $2,000 because we had 2 MicroStation overages in the first quarter. 1 overage was for a single day, the other was 5 days. Turns out it was because I had a team of people evaluating CONNECT. Most of our</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: Bentley no longer using "Trust" Licensing? - outrageous overage charges now!</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/466172?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2018 11:30:30 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:3905a62e-fbb8-4744-87e4-399ad27b2c7d</guid><dc:creator>R.K. McSwain</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Of course, this is the design of their plan, to profit as much as possible,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Bentley no longer using "Trust" Licensing? - outrageous overage charges now!</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/379382?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2016 11:24:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b6c44765-5c93-4940-8fa0-5be225e2e622</guid><dc:creator>Koert</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Only install it for those who really need to be able to use it. Others get to use the free viewer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you rent software, you&amp;#39;re paying for the whole rental period. No software vendor is going to refund you over 95% of the renting price because you only used it for 2 days in the 3 month rental period.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Same with a rented car, rent 3 months, pay 3 months, even if you don&amp;#39;t drive it at all.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you don&amp;#39;t want to pay for it, make sure you don&amp;#39;t use it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Below a link to strategies to limit Usage.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://communities.bentley.com/products/licensing/w/licensing__wiki/20995.strategies-for-limiting-usage"&gt;communities.bentley.com/.../20995.strategies-for-limiting-usage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Bentley no longer using "Trust" Licensing? - outrageous overage charges now!</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/378532?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2016 12:50:30 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:805aa188-2978-4b75-b5d6-95f87bec94c1</guid><dc:creator>xander76</dc:creator><description>Does anyone actually think one or two 10+ minute usages actually constitutes an overage?  I&amp;#39;m just curious why this type of policy was agreed upon other than to make more money?  My users all attempt to be diligent with product usage, we don&amp;#39;t secretly use software, and yet one mistake gets charged the same amount as if a program was open for the entire quarter.  Can&amp;#39;t some type of time based pro-rate system be implemented? if say the overage is for 50% of the quarter you are charged the full SELECT OpenAccess QTL, but anything less is pro-rated??  Just spit balling here but one 15 minute overage now could cost someone hundreds or thousands of dollars......&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Bentley no longer using "Trust" Licensing? - outrageous overage charges now!</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/378511?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2016 09:59:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:d8b6108b-b292-4731-8cfe-b79742922cea</guid><dc:creator>Bigean</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;We were informed start of 2014 about the upcoming change. SELECT Basic Access or optional SELECT Open Access. Overusage and consequences wouldn&amp;#39;t be discussed but charged as quarter rent automatically. In Open Access even for products that you never had a single license. You seem to have missed this change.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Recently the &amp;quot;overuse&amp;quot; calculation was changed, that&amp;#39;s the discussion Joshua referred to. Concurrent use was redefined (better), but now&amp;nbsp;one single overuse of 10 minutes or more will generate a term invoice.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Find several discussions here about all this policy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Bentley no longer using "Trust" Licensing? - outrageous overage charges now!</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/378394?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2016 15:39:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:098356c5-44f2-4d43-b081-5c6b34d676fe</guid><dc:creator>Joshua Kulp</dc:creator><description>A conversation has recently taken place that may help you with our licensing program. Like below:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://communities.bentley.com/products/licensing/f/275813/t/119148"&gt;communities.bentley.com/.../119148&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>